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The true story that the fictionalized “Danny Collins” is based on goes like this: A 21-year-old British folk singer named Steve Tilston started to see his career rise. In 1971, he was interviewed by the British rock mag ZigZag, and the discussion came around to fame and fortune possibly getting in the way of artistic success.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach became a darling of the indie cinema world a decade ago with the release of the art house hit “The Squid and the Whale.” That and his follow-ups – “Margot at the Wedding,” “Greenberg,” and “Frances Ha” gave Baumbach a...

With the buzz from the 2015 Oscar films fading, it’s time to turn the focus to the new season ahead. Some movies with great potential are coming to theaters this spring. There’s something for every genre, whether you’re into tales of romance,...

You probably wouldn’t know their names or their faces. But if you listened to Top-40 radio in the’60s, or tune in Oldies radio now, you’re sure familiar with their sound. The group of Los Angeles studio musicians who were hired to play instruments...

Three questions: Can beloved animated films successfully be adapted into live-action features? Can television actors make the jump to the big screen? Is there such thing as a perfect movie? Yes, yes and yes.

Although “Insurgent” is the second portion of a trilogy, and the characters in it are continuing the story that began in “Divergent,” part two really is a different kind of animal in many ways. There’s much more action, some of it owing to the...

Even after a couple of decades of interviewing actors, there’s still often a bit of pop culture shock when you see a movie that features characters doing vicious, heinous things, and shortly after, chat with the actors who played them, but find them...

If you’re the sort of person who gets heavily invested in movies and television shows, there are pretty much only two settings: feast and famine. Or more perhaps more precisely, there’s the time of year when everything is out and you are inundated...

Moving tributes to the lifelong voyage of director, poet and famous “Star Trek” actor Leonard Simon Nimoy are flooding our newsfeeds. His persona, Spock, reminds me of why I became a Trekkie long before being “geeky” was cool.

For its first 20 minutes or so, it looks like “Chappie” is paying an awful lot of homage to “Robocop” (the original, not the remake). There’s havoc in the city streets, there are robotic cops trying to control it, there are point-of-view shots from...